Case research in global software projects: Coordinating through knowledge

ICIS 2006 Proceedings - Twenty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1019-1038

  Kotlarsky, Julia ^a   van Fenema, Paul C ^b   Willcocks, Leslie P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NETHERLANDS DEFENCE ACADEMY   (Netherlands)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coordination; Global software projects; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION; EXPLANATORY POWER; KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE-BASED MODEL; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870205026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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